Dear Listeners, This Podcast series on the Windhorse practice of Basic Attendance explores the discipline as an expression of the wisdom, compassion and resulting reciprocity that can manifest in ordinary human relationships when cultivated wit

Could I Be A Voice For Those Still Suffering? Pt. 5

Nov 15th, 2022 1h 5m

Dear Listeners, Welcome to today’s podcast, the conclusion of our five-part series of Julia’s first-person recovery story. By its nature, what’s being told here is certainly unique, as each person’s journey is completely individual. But in this

Could I Be A Voice For Those Still Suffering? Pt. 4

Nov 15th, 2022 54m 5s

Hello friends and listeners, I am so glad that you are here, and I hope that you will enjoy today’s podcast. Hopefully you have had the opportunity to watch the first 3 podcasts. I was very excited to have been given the opportunity to make th

Could I Be A Voice For Those Still Suffering? Pt. 3

Nov 15th, 2022 51m 20s

Dear Listeners, Welcome to today’s podcast, a first-person recovery story which we believe is a unique contribution to the resources on extreme state psychology—particularly around the phenomenon of cutting. In Part Three of this five-part seri

Could I Be A Voice For Those Still Suffering? Pt. 2

May 10th, 2022 1h 7m

Dear Listeners, Welcome to today’s podcast. In Part Two of this five-part series, we once again join the four members of Julia’s long-standing Windhorse team as they continue to discuss their stark experiences and the realities of her recovery—

Could I Be A Voice For Those Still Suffering? Pt. 1

May 10th, 2022 1h 15m

Welcome to today’s podcast, a first-person recovery story which we believe is a unique contribution to the resources on extreme state psychology—particularly around the phenomenon of cutting. The arc of our story begins with Julia, who’s lost i

Recovery is possible, no matter how disturbed a mind has become

Jan 5th, 2022 1h 1m

Dear Listeners, In this podcast, four long-time Windhorse practitioners discuss the 4th (and last) principle of recovery: “No matter how disturbed a mind has become, recovery is possible.” Gabrielle Bershen, Jack Gipple, and I (Marta Aarli) sha

Recovery is the path of discovering one’s own health and sanity

Jan 5th, 2022 55m 41s

Dear Listeners, Anyone who’s considered the territory of recovery from extreme mental states knows this to be a vast and subtle topic. And if this is a concern of yours, it’s also critical to reasonably understand—otherwise you may not recogniz

The Integration of Windhorse and Open Dialogue

Dec 30th, 2021 56m 4s

Dear Listeners, Welcome to this podcast discussion that explores the integration of the Windhorse approach with Dialogical Process that derives from Finland’s Open Dialogue treatment approach. We are also fortunate to publish here an original p

The Legacy of RD Laing

Oct 20th, 2021 43m 55s

Dear Listeners, Welcome to this podcast, which is part 2 of Co-Presence: The Legacy of R.D. Laing. Again, our group of distinguished guests includes Nita Gage, Michael Thompson, Fritjof Capra, and Jeff Fortuna. If you’ve been fortunate to alrea

Co-Presence: The Legacy Of RD Laing Part 1

Jun 15th, 2021 38m 41s

Welcome to this podcast discussion of the life and times of RD Laing. Dr. Laing was an iconoclastic 20th century psychiatrist who was a noted author, teacher, social critic, philosopher, poet, and jazz pianist. You are about to experience the f

DON’T BE SO PREDICTABLE: A Conversation with Dungse Jampal Norbu on the Practice of Lojong

Jun 15th, 2021 1h 10m

Welcome to an opportunity to listen to a spontaneous discussion about the Lojong slogan training with a wonderful teacher. In this discussion, Polly Banerjee Gallagher and I join Dungse Jampal Norbu to address a few of these slogans and how the

Walking the Path of Healing Discipline – Part 2

Jun 15th, 2021 35m 20s

Here is the second part of a discussion about Healing Discipline, published by the Windhorse Legacy Project. This new book is an edited collection of three seminars given by Dr. Ed Podvoll in the mid-eighties. My connection to this book is as t

Walking the Path of Healing Discipline

Apr 22nd, 2021 38m 49s

I would like to thank you, dear listener-viewer, for finding your way to part 1 of this most recent podcast entry to the Windhorse Journal. Our panel discusses the book Healing Discipline, which has just been published as an e-book on the Windh

The Space Between: Opening Ourselves to Inclusion – Part 2

Apr 22nd, 2021 22m 5s

Dear Listeners, Welcome to the continuation of a conversation about Inclusion, moderated by Chuck Knapp. Participants Sorin Thomas, Anne Marie DiGiacomo, and Polly Banerjee Gallagher go deeper into the question of how and why some ways of being

The Space Between: Opening Ourselves to Inclusion

Apr 22nd, 2021 47m 13s

Dear Listeners, Welcome to a conversation about Inclusion, moderated by Chuck Knapp. Participants Sorin Thomas, Anne Marie DiGiacomo, and Polly Banerjee Gallagher consider the fears and faulty premises that lead us to value some identities and

Taking Care in Pandemic Part two

Dec 28th, 2020 31m

Dear Listeners, We are fast approaching six months since Windhorse Community Services altered the ways we function in our day to day lives due to COVID-19. The podcast Rinpoche recorded with myself, Jack Gipple, and Chuck Knapp as the moderator

Windhorse Leadership: Seeking Health, Sanity and Balance during COVID 19 pt. 2

Dec 28th, 2020 30m 44s

Dear Listeners, This week, we return to part two of the discussion published on May 16th, Lungta in the Time of Corona: Leadership During a Crisis. This recording took place on the first of May, 2020. That day I sat in my kitchen, about a mont

Community Programs during COVID part two: Nurturing Your Inner Hero

Dec 28th, 2020 35m 50s

Dear Friends, Welcome to today’s Journal entry, which begins with a heartfelt conversation among Windhorse Community Programs members—moderated by Chuck Knapp and JoAnn Burton—about coping with the pandemic from the perspective of the Hero’s Jo

WCS Community Programs: Connection During COVID

Dec 28th, 2020 30m 22s

Dear Listeners, Community Programs is, by its very nature, a place for Windhorse clients and staff to connect, learn, and celebrate together. When COVID-19 hit our hometown of Boulder in early March, and we all dispersed to our homes to protect

Lungta in the Time of Corona: Leadership During a Crisis

Jul 1st, 2020 40m 20s

It has been 8 weeks since we began responding as an organization to the threat of COVID-19, with significant alterations to how we go about our work. At that time, an already-scheduled visit and podcast recording with Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche p

Taking Care in Pandemic: Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche’s Reflections on Our Mental Priorities

Jul 1st, 2020 35m 33s

It’s again our privilege to present another podcast with Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche. This finds him in a conversation with Polly Banerjee Gallagher and Jack Gipple, primarily focusing on how to work with our minds and relationships in this time

I AM WHAT I DO: A Conversation with Filmmaker Scott Klumb

Jul 1st, 2020 25m 26s

It’s a privilege to present this podcast, which displays a rare convergence of creativity with a remarkable recovery path. Scott Klumb, in dialogue with his psychotherapist Jon Garson, offers us a glimpse into his passion and creative process a

The Everest Effect

Jul 1st, 2020 34m 50s

In Joanne Greenberg’s piece “In Praise of Not Knowing” she writes that while on the one hand, she would like to know what the future holds, on the other, it would rob her of essential qualities of life. “Not to know implies the need to learn mo

Swimming Lessons

Jul 1st, 2020 53m 7s

It’s with great pleasure that we share these illuminating conversations with Joanne Greenberg. Though we’d felt a strong and warm connection with Joanne for many years, it wasn’t until the focus and depth of these recording sessions that we rea